Brown v. State

Citations

• 85 Miss. 511

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Law. Murder. Previous difficulty. Evidence.</p> <p>■Where on the trial of a murder case the state designedly proved a previous difficulty between deceased and the accused, it was error to deny defendant the right to show th'e details of such difficulty.</p> <p>■ 2. Same. Supreme court practice.</p> <p>In such case, upon appeal, the state cannot claim that the error is non-pre judicial because the record fails to show what the details of the previous difficulty were, where it does show that defendant was not permitted to state to the trial court, even out of the hearing of the jury, what he expected to prove touching the details.</p>